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News coverage of the Kenyan Parliament
elected in March 2013 is off to a rocky start. The press last week was kicked
out of the media center in the National Assembly, and although the speaker
tried to make assurances that overall access won't be affected, journalists are
wary.

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Istanbul, June 5, 2013--Turkish authorities should not
interfere with the free flow of information online or in any other media, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today after a senior government official
suggested Internet restrictions could be in the offing.

Journalists could be seen rushing from
polling station to polling station Monday to see long queues of determined
Kenyan voters in what was apparently a largely peaceful election, according to
the Deputy Director of Kenya's statutory media council, Victor Bwire. But
leading up to the vote, many journalists worked in a climate of fear; and many
of them say they are still wary that, once results are in, they will face
attacks and other challenges such as they experienced in the aftermath of the
last presidential election in 2007.

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The
government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is quick to brand critics as
"terrorists," and that's one of the main reasons that Turkey was the world's
worst jailer of the press when CPJ conducted its recent census
of imprisoned journalists. This week, the prime minister and two pro-government
newspapers applied the label once again to critics, illustrating the extremely
difficult climate confronting any Turkish journalist who challenges official
positions.